Now, he complains that Republicans are trying to make the Democrats look “angry.� I think that the party of renowned vein-poppers Howard “The Scream� Dean, Al Gore and Ted Kennedy — whose rage makes me think his head is going to start spinning around a la Linda Blair and who has no business questioning the integrity of someone like Justice Samuel Alito or Howard Stern, for that matter — needs no help in that regard from the Republicans. “Angry Republican� is almost as much of an oxymoron as “liberal think tank.�

Larsen makes our case so well himself when he states that Republicans “want to make Democrats appear as angry people, as curmudgeons who can’t find anything good and who, in failing to have ideas of their own, can only denigrate everything they see.� And his point is?

Larsen points out the “little hanky panky� in the Oval Office by former President Clinton is perceived by Republicans to be worse than the “unnecessary� war in Iraq. Can Larsen say “perjury�?

Larsen also asks if the mounting deaths of Americans in Iraq makes our blood boil. Republicans grieve at the loss of every one of our fallen heroes. Every one of them was a terrible loss suffered by their families and friends. Keep in mind that the worst month for loss of American lives in Iraq is about 44, while the worst month in Vietnam — July 1968, I believe — was more than 2,400.

And, oh yes, let’s not forget the 44 million American lives ended by defenseless unborn babies since Roe v. Wade. No tears from Larsen for them!

Am I angry? You bet I am!

— Gerald Harman, Thousand Oaks